Tabloid Tales of the Past

Rome will receive $80,000 in state grant money to create a plan to preserve, enhance and promote its location on the Mohawk River and Erie Canal, the governor’s office announced.

BOONVILLE — Adirondack Central Schnols has named former Superintendent Raymond F. Borden as the interim superintendent of schools.

June 12, 1992

About 350 summer jobs are available Oneida County for economically disadvantaged youths, and officials are having problems filling the positions.

June 12, 1982

Faculty members and administrators at the State University College of Technology are seeking the support of legislators and the Utica-Rome community for a moratorium on academic changes at the college.

June 12, 1972

Communications experts from around the world will gather at Griffiss Air Force Base this week when headquarters, Northern Communications Area, hosts its first aeronautical station superintendents’ conference.

June 12, 1962

Herb Philipson’s newly enlarged Army and Navy store on West Dominick Street will have its grand opening this week.

June 12, 1952

Construction of Erie Boulevbard West is scheduled to be completed by late August.

Today is Tuesday, June 12, the 164th day of 2012. There are 202 days left in the year.

Today in History

On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday; in it, she wrote, "I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to with anyone, and I hope you will provide much support and comfort." (Less than a month later, Anne and her family went into hiding from the Nazis.)

On this date:

In 1665, England installed a municipal government in New York, formerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

In 1776, Virginia’s colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.

In 1898, Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.

In 1920, the Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Warren G. Harding for president on the tenth ballot; Calvin Coolidge was nominated for vice president.

In 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.

In 1956, the Flag of the United States Army was officially adopted under an executive order signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Miss. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.)

In 1967, the Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.

In 1972, the notorious porn film "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace, opened in New York. (The title would become the nickname of a deep background source for The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal, later revealed to be then-FBI Associate Director Mark Felt.) Death claimed literary critic Edmund Wilson at age 77 and community organizer Saul Alinsky at age 63.

In 1982, a crowd estimated at up to 1 million people gathered in New York’s Central Park to demand a superpower freeze on nuclear weapons.

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."

In 1991, Russians went to the polls to elect Boris N. Yeltsin president of their republic.

Ten years ago

The Los Angeles Lakers finished off the New Jersey Nets in four games, winning their third straight NBA title with a 113-107 victory. Fashion designer Bill Blass died at his Connecticut home at age 79.

Five years ago

President George W. Bush went to Capitol Hill, where he prodded rebellious Senate Republicans to help resurrect legislation that could provide eventual citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.